Spring heel



May 20, 1930. EIN R 1,159,379

' SPRING Filed June 19. 1928 gmemto'p Patented May 20, 1930 v o Unitasstares JOSEPH WEINBEBG, OF NEW CASTLE, PENNSYLVANIA SPRING HEELApplication filed June 19, 1928. Serial No. 286,657.

This invention relates to a spring heel adapted to be placed within theshoe and resiliently support the heel of the wearer, the object, ofcourse, being to reduce the shock and jar incident to the impact of theheel against a sidewalk.

A further object is to provide a device of this character which may beseparately sold as an article of manufacture for insertion into the heelof a shoe.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure1 is a top plan view of a spring heel constructed in accordance with myinven- 1-3 tion;

, Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view thereof;

Fi ure 3 is an elevation showin the heel supporting plate in section. V

Referring to this drawing, 10 designates a metallic plate formed tofit'within the heel of a shoe and preferably glued to a leather strip 11faced on its upper side with a facing of smooth, flexible leather 12.The strips 12 extend out beyond the metallic plate 10 at 13.

Mounted upon the metallic plate is a helical coiled spring 141 formed ofa strip of resilient material coiled in gradually decreasing spirals,the spirals being extended vertically downward so that the centralspiral stands below the next adjacent spiral and so on. The spiral atthe top of the coil is held to the plate by means of a metallic strip 15welded to the metallic plate at 16, this strip being bent downward as at17, then extended flatly over the plate and then again bent over andthen again extended,'as at 18. The top coil of the spring 14 is insertedin these loops 17 and 18 so as to be firmly clamped therein 4- so thatthe spring will not shift.

This device is adapted to be insertedwithin the heel of a shoe with thewearers heel resting upon the heel plate and is designed to give .relieffrom fatiguein walking. In

4 the finished product the plate 10 will be made of aluminum and thespring will be nickeled. However, I do not wish to be limited .to thisas it is obvious that the plate might be made of zinc or copper and thatthe spring may be of any suitable materialalso.

I claim.-

As an article of manufacture, a resilien heel support comprising a.metallic plate, a leather heel supporting piece to which the heel isattached, a metallic strip welded to the '55 plate and formed with twodownwardly bent loops, and a coiled spring ofv relatively thin materialset on edge, the uppermost coil being disposed in said loops andsupported thereby, the coils gradually contracting in diameter and onecoil being disposed below another coil, each coil normally beingdisposed within and overlapping the next adjacent coil.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my I signature.

JosEPH WEINBERG.

